Sydney, Kentucky

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Sidney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41564. It stands on Road Fork. The Survey maps it on the Belfry quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Sydney within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1887 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1915 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Belfry quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Belfry quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Belfry quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

102 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Sydney (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 10,644 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Arson/incendiarism	17
Recreation and ceremony	10
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	98 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 August 2008	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 July 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 June 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 May 2000	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 2013	Debris and open burning	85 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROCKHOUSE
6 April 2000	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 April 1999	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sidney	0.1 miles	19
Canada	2.0 miles	19
Pigeon Roost (historical)	2.5 miles	19
Elkins Fork (historical)	2.8 miles	20
Upper Turkey (historical)	2.9 miles	20
Upper Dick (historical)	3.0 miles	19
Old Sydney (historical)	3.1 miles	19
Tom Ray (historical)	3.1 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2107409. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.